Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number of variables and risk factors involved in the experience of loneliness, along with positive correlations with premature mortality and morbidity. However, most of these analyses overlook the social interactions and context in which loneliness is experienced. Drawing on a subsample (N = 24) of Spanish “mothers” from impoverished families, the article proposes a mixed‐method approach (both relational and interpretative) that may potentially complement quantitative approaches, showing relational and contextual factors that may contribute to a better understanding of the subjective dimension of loneliness.

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“她被亲人包围，但感到孤独”：孤独的关系方法

孤独是我们现代后工业社会的重大问题之一。目前对孤独感的研究主要由心理学、生物医学、护理学和其他与健康相关的学科发展，显示出与孤独感体验相关的变量和风险因素数量惊人，以及与过早死亡和发病率呈正相关。然而，这些分析中的大多数都忽略了体验孤独的社会互动和背景。利用来自贫困家庭的西班牙“母亲”的子样本（N = 24），本文提出了一种混合方法（关系和解释），可能会补充定量方法，